[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Okay, so that's a kind of a long bill, so I can't verify but you make it sound a bit like the carriers will be fined. They historically directly pass-through all compliance costs to customers, so ultimately customers pay to receive the robocalls?
Good, maybe they'll fix the problem by offering data only plans at lower rates than data + phone + sms. All I need is data.
To be fully cynical would be to predict that in five years Congress will be calling the wireless providers to testify as to why prices are increasing at such a high rate.
Why didn't they do that already?
2. There was supposedly a confusion around whether they were allowed to block anything. That's gone now.
> 2. There was supposedly a confusion around whether they were allowed to block anything. That's gone now.
Under the current system, it seems 100% of spam gets through that could so easily be filtered. At an old small business I worked at, we received ~10 calls per day from an identical caller ID number robocaller and ~20 calls per day from a robocaller always using a slightly different very long string of characters. Due to the nature of the company, the main line had to be manned by a human being, so even just the time to look at the caller ID, ignore the caller, and then re-focus back on task was at least 15 minutes of lost productivity every day, yet this is about the easiest type of spammy activity to filter. No need to cooperate with anyone but your customers.
The second could be interpreted as: regulations caused the proliferation of robocalling, as we can see in the unregulated email space that far more spam is sent yet far less ever makes it through the filters. What problems will the new regulations cause?
I don't think this is possible in the telecom space without some sort of complete rethinking of spectrum licensing.
Which I pointed out a month ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21494828
48 billion calls, $208 in assessed fines, $6,790 collected.
Like if the fines hit $400 million, a group that could only deliver a 10% increase in collections might still be worth doing.
The fines attributable to a single entity another.
The collectability on those fines, the third.
By scoping responsibility to include the call recipient's telco, you'd address all three of these.
That telco could, of course, adjust its risk-management practices (who it interops with, what the conditions of those interops are, caller identity / reputation) to minimise such risks.
Which would of course be the whole fucking point.